neurotypism

a working definition, 8.2021

[modeled after the working definition of ableism​ by TL Lewis, Dustin Gibson, & others]

a system that places value on people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of communication, engagement, relation, embodiment, production, and processing.

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These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in ableism, sanism, oralism, anti-Black racism, White Supremacy, cisheterosexism, eugenics, classism, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. 

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This form of systemic oppression leads to people and society determining who is valuable and worthy based on a person’s ability to operate linearly and engage, relate, and learn in socially acceptable ways; and/or their ability to satisfactorily [re]produce, excel and "behave."